"The Home Whovian was a 30 minute direct-to-video documentary produced in 1985 by and for the New Jersey Network (NJN). The special was hosted by Eric Luskin, and contained extended and re-cut interview footage that had previously appeared in Doctor Who's Who's Who. The special was later released on video in the UK by Reeltime Pictures in 2001, with a DVD edition under the Myth Makers series in 2004." - http://gallifreybase.com/w/index.php/The_Home_Whovian
Anyway, back to editing suites. Since I'm going to be using DaVinci Resolve from time to time I expect I'll need for the GPU either a 1070 or a 1080. Any idea on how much RAM I might need?
Speaking of which, I'm hoping to give the old Lionheart logo the Yadif treatment. I think it might appear on "The Home Whovian", a PBS special presented in association with NJN that was released on VHS just over 30 years ago.
Apparently DaVinci Resolve doesn't like Avisynth (it's output formats). https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=172456 "although Resolve supports AVI ... it only supports a few specific formats. ... The problem becomes getting UYVY, or 10-bit RGB, out of Avisynth. As far as I know the Avisynth+ project hasn't implemented higher bit depths just yet."
And with the first Ultra HD Blu-ray burner on the market being priced well out of my range, it doesn't look like I'll be shopping for any UHD adventures any time soon. Maybe in a few years' time, when the prices go down...
Anyway... when I get to restoring TGTBATU, I'm thinking of extending the Mexican standoff at the end to incorporate the full, unedited version of "Il triello", the music that plays during the showdown. I'm not sure what route to go, but I do know it involves reusing shots, so I'm going to need some input here.
But the way I see it, DaVinci Resolve 12.5 is the best tool for the job. Course, I might upgrade when the free version gives more stereo capability than the current version does, but I guess some things can wait; after all, I'm not yet planning any stereo projects.
Oh, regarding color grading, when it needs to be done manually I'm gonna swear by DaVinci Resolve Lite, unless someone would point me to some better freeware in that regard.
It *should* be around 50mbps, but in reality is around 20mpbs... better than previous 7mbps, but far from the potential 200mbps fiber can reach in my city... oh, let's wait if it improves in the weekend!
Fiber is now at my home! Not lightning fast but I can upload at 20x (at least) in comparison to old ADSL... that's why I uploaded three projects in the last days!
On my end, I haven't been able to find any good deal on the Italian Blu-ray for Fistful, but I do intend to look for other materials for my planned Dollars Trilogy restoration in the meantime, so as not to waste too much time.
DVDrot... currently I'm buying some used stuff (about 2 bucks a film) to save the original mixes... just got Rambo 1 + 2 alas those discs show severe fog on their surface. Was able to play them and rip them, but they're due to be unusable in 10 years times. So be sure to save on those early discs (from 1997 to 2002) while you can, they all have original mixes that were crapped upon and doctored for reissues.
Anyone knows how to fix this? Pal, 25fps stuff that is actually the same lenght as the 23.976fps NTSC version. If I convert back to NTSC, it's shorter, if I keep 25fps, I can't sync in FCPX as the timeline is 23.976
Anyway... I finally got finished using VirtualDub to make a high-quality recording of my 20th Century-Fox Video rental tape of Fistful of Dollars. As soon as I can, I'll put up screenshots from it and the later MGM/UA tape for comparison purposes.
I'm sure you've got a few unique video masters/sound mixes/special features in amongst that job lot! Is there anything unique about the T2 steelbook other than the 7.1 audio?
...and that's a pity, because some of the companies, first on the HD-DVD trian, and later jumped the BD train revised their HD masters with DNR for BD releases...
Yeah, I think one disc replication plant was the culprit, and Warner titles seem to be affected most. Had a Universal combo disc go bad too. The DVD side worked fine though.
I think the Harry Potter may be a problem, I Already have some of them already, that don't work on my external drive... For the price it is worth a shot to take some rotten...
What I do have is a good idea of several of the sources I'll be using for the restoration, at least one of the sources, and a good deal of information to work with when reconstructing certain things.